{"id":26381,"date":"2009-07-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-18T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dejusticia.org\/notaries-and-bad-faith\/"},"modified":"2017-04-11T07:31:39","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T12:31:39","slug":"notaries-and-bad-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/notaries-and-bad-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Notaries and bad faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UNA DE LAS PECULIARIDADES DE SER colombiano es tener que lidiar con las notar\u00edas. Nacer, crecer, negociar, procrear, trabajar, heredar y hasta morir, son verbos que, en Colombia, dif\u00edcilmente tienen valor si no est\u00e1n acompa\u00f1ados de la firma de un notario. <\/p>\n<p>En la mayor\u00eda de los pa\u00edses desarrollados las notar\u00edas no existen o son muy escasas. Aqu\u00ed est\u00e1n en todas partes, como las farmacias, las peluquer\u00edas o las oficinas de chance.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfPor qu\u00e9 tenemos tantas notar\u00edas en Colombia? La respuesta m\u00e1s obvia es esta: dado que los notarios cumplen la funci\u00f3n de certificar la veracidad de los documentos, es decir, de dar fe p\u00fablica de su autenticidad, el hecho de que haya muchos notarios significa que hay tambi\u00e9n mucha gente que enga\u00f1a y que hace trampa. Si nadie actuara de mala fe, los notarios no existir\u00edan. Como hay tanto p\u00edcaro, en cambio, el notario suministra esa confianza m\u00ednima que se requiere para que la gente se relacione con los dem\u00e1s. <\/p>\n<p>Esta explicaci\u00f3n no me convence. No es que no crea en la propagaci\u00f3n nacional de la mala fe. Al contrario, estoy convencido de que la primera y m\u00e1s espont\u00e1nea actitud social del colombiano es desconfiar de los dem\u00e1s. Lo que creo es que la abundancia de notarios no s\u00f3lo no ayuda a acabar con esa desconfianza y con la trampa que la sustenta, sino que la reproduce. Eso sucede por varias razones.<\/p>\n<p>La primera es que el notario colombiano \u2014no todos, claro\u2014 est\u00e1 lejos de ser ese personaje honorable y de conducta intachable que dio origen a la instituci\u00f3n del notariado. Muchos de los notarios actuales son abogados mediocres que se mueven en ese mundillo oscuro que va del litigio al clientelismo pol\u00edtico. No voy a hacer el recuento de los esc\u00e1ndalos que ha habido en los \u00faltimos a\u00f1os. Me limito a mencionar el \u00faltimo, el de la semana pasada: Manuel Cuello Baute, ex superintendente de notar\u00edas, condenado por corrupci\u00f3n, acaba de dar declaraciones a la Corte Suprema seg\u00fan las cuales, 10 senadores recibieron notar\u00edas a cambio de su voto por la reelecci\u00f3n en 2004.<\/p>\n<p>La segunda raz\u00f3n es esta: en un ambiente de clientelismo y tolerancia con la corrupci\u00f3n, como el que se vive hoy en Colombia, la exigencia de certificaciones notariales s\u00f3lo crea nuevas oportunidades para el delito. Cada tr\u00e1mite adicional es una nueva ocasi\u00f3n para violarlo y para enga\u00f1ar a los dem\u00e1s. Por eso no sorprende que los funcionarios corruptos sean los primeros que salen a defender los formalismos legales. Es all\u00ed, en la letra menuda de los tr\u00e1mites oficiales, en ese terreno fangoso que ellos conocen mejor que nadie, donde los abogados y los notarios corruptos atrapan a sus v\u00edctimas.<\/p>\n<p>As\u00ed pues, tanto requisito y tanto papeleo no garantizan que quienes act\u00faan de mala fe no se salgan con la suya. Al contrario, el ritual de los sellos de colores y de la firmas rimbombantes produce un falso aire de seguridad: no s\u00f3lo permite que la trampa sea m\u00e1s sofisticada y eficaz \u2014as\u00ed sucede, por ejemplo, con el despojo de tierras a los campesinos por parte de los narcos\u2014 sino que, al esconder la hondura de nuestro fen\u00f3meno social de mala fe, perpet\u00faa el problema.<\/p>\n<p>No es pues que la falta de confianza subsista a pesar de los esfuerzos que hacen los notarios por remediarla, sino al rev\u00e9s, existe, al menos en parte, gracias a ellos. Por eso, como dicen ahora, los notarios no son parte de la soluci\u00f3n, sino del problema.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the singularities of being Colombian is having to deal with notaries. 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